First off i hate the fact that i share things in common with elon musk namely doing ketamine and liking dune
But goddamn that trip was fucking intense im not even totally sure what i witnessed it was complete madness i took maybe 300 mg i think? I dont know if thats a lot but it was a big ol pile of k on my hand and boy did it burn. I put on the dune soundtrack turned on the shower started to dissociate rapidly and then bam! Chaos. I dont even know how to describe it. A state of existence completely orthogonal to human rationality. There wasnt a sense of oneness of the universe or anything, it was more like the skin of reality peeled back to reveal something completely and utterly incomprehensible. A place where definitions and descriptions have no meaning, complete conceptual fluidity. It was transcendent and terrifying. There was no self, no time, no memory of who i was before, only the pounding fall of water, dune, and the screaming breakbeat of my subconscious. I died at least once. Came to staring at my hands and crawled out of the bathtub like the girl from the grudge. All i could say for 30 minutes was holy shit
The more i try to remember the less i understand
10/10 probably going to give ketamine a break for now
I describe it as like dying—that’s how I sometimes imagine the experience of dying, and your consciousness getting borked before ceasing to exist.
I read that a sufficiently high dose can cause brain electrical activity to cease for like 30 minutes so i wouldnt be surprised if there was overlap with NDEs. I do feel closer to the concept of death, in a positive way
That sounds like nonsense tbh. Cessation of all electrical activity in your brain for any span of time doesn’t sound like something you come back from.
Here's an article on it
https://www.sciencealert.com/ketamine-experiment-in-sheep-reveals-brain-phenomenon-we-ve-never-seen-before
Interesting as fuck. So it really is like how dying would probably be like.